Nier: Automata uses a number of pre-rendered cutscenes which are encoded in an MPEG-type format at ultra-high bitrates, resulting in inefficient videos that occupy a large amount of space and may perform poorly depending on your hardware. Furthermore, the game engine was not designed to crop or letterbox videos on non-16:9 displays, resulting in stretching for some users. While some limitations inherent to the game itself prevent solving all issues without an official patch, with the right tool, users can still enjoy an improved video experience better suited to their needs.

Formerly NieRepack, Vidsquish now provides an easy-to-use GUI to do just this, with all the necessary tools packed right in. Check it out at the official Steam group:

It is highly recommended to use this new version as it offers features and updates not available to NieRepack.

Still want to use NieRepack anyway? It can be downloaded either here[dl.dropboxusercontent.com] or here.

Setup

Vidsquish does not require installation. Simply download extract the application to the directory of your choice and run Vidsquish.exe

It is highly recommended to make a backup of your original video files if you have the free space for it. Vidsquish is safe to use and will not likely corrupt your data if it is interrupted, but depending on the features you select there may be no going back to your videos' original state. Alternatively, if you don't have the free space for a backup, you can always run a Verify Integrity of Game Files operation to restore the original videos from the internet.

Demo

Vidsquish Demonstration (Please view in 60 FPS!)

NieRepack High Compression

NieRepack 21:9 Cropped @ 60 FPS Frame-blended

Credits

Special thanks to user Breedloved for introducing me to the tools that initially made this possible!

Vidsquish is based on ffmpeg, utf_tab, Scaleform, and sfdmux.

Updates

Vidsquish version 0.9

Added full GUI

NieRepack now supports multiple games, so please check the Steam group for further updates!

Version 2.12

Changed all resolutions to multiples of 8 to prevent crashes with medianoche.exe

I thought it may take 1 day or so to complete the conversion. But after about 12 hours i find the conversion was completed. It just converted about 50 files and said the conversion was completed. I restarted the conversion and modified project.squish to remove files converted before. Hope this time it can finish the conversion properly.

The file is only a suggestion, you can select anything with the same extension.

To run multiple instances, split your files up into separate folders and then run Vidsquish multiple times and point each instance to a different folder. Same process as before, only it actually works now :)

You might want to separate your videos into different folders and run two instances of Vidsquish simultaneously, then. Any more than that would probably bog down your CPU too much to be usable, but twice as fast is better than nothing.